OLPC progress report from Thailand

[supat at supat.eu.org]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Jordan Crouse wrote:

> On 13/09/06 19:44 +0700, supat at supat.eu.org wrote:
>>
>> Today I test OLPC under slackware 10.2 several times and result are
>> reproducible/repeatable with 100% correlation of working.
>>
>> Now, we can use OLPC to run .swf that eat 338 MB RAM by using
>> decentralization techniques I used since 1995 at acceptible performance
>> that students can use.
>>
>> The condition to make it to work are:
>>
>> 1. slackware 10.2 environment
>> 2. amd VGA frame-buffer support under Xorg 7.1.99.2
>
> Please don't use the term VGA - if you are using LinuxBIOS it doesn't exist.
> Period.  When you say "amd frame-buffer support" - does that mean you are
> using the "fbdev" or "amd" driver?  Thats a very important distinction -
> the former won't do 2D acceleration, the latter will.  Please be very careful
> to use the correct terms when reporting your results.
>
>> Module                  Size  Used by
>> gx1fb                  10240  0
>
> I'm not even sure how you managed to get this framebuffer driver to load.
> It is the incorrect framebuffer driver.  You should be using gxfb.
>
> Jordan
> -- 
> Jordan Crouse
> Senior Linux Engineer
> Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
> <www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors>
>

Thank you much on your sugession.

I used OLPC config given in OLPC build81 and recompile it under slackware 
10.2. For kernel 2.6 it become below .config

CONFIG_FB_GEODE=y
CONFIG_FB_GEODE_GX=y
# CONFIG_FB_GEODE_GX_SET_FBSIZE is not set
CONFIG_FB_GEODE_GX1=m
# CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set

That means normal frame-buffer and normal AMD already exist in the kernel. 
I don't know reason why I have to probe FB_GEODE_GX1 to make the movies to 
work w/o problem. I think you should know it more than me.

At this moment, it still has missing minor features that annoy me, for 
example press cntl_alt_f1 to f6 cannot bring back to console and I have to 
kill X-window only by pressing cntl_alt_bs.

I am also see that it did not have xterm and glx extension in Xorg so I 
have to disable glx and copy xterm from slackware 10.2 to put in usb-OLPC 
drive.

Regards,
supat